Maze Bomber is the second game that I've reviewed from Banasiak, a Polish
software developer. This game is inspired from the old ZX Spectrum game, Bomberman. The mere mention of the Spectrum brings
a fuzzy feeling back. With it's Italian salad keyboard, limited graphics, buzzer sound, the Spectrum was hardly a
supercomputer. However, the games for this home computer were extremely addictive. Many a child's youth was mis-spent playing
Atic Atac, Enduro Racer, Jetset Willy to name but three.

Installation of the game was trivial; it happily installed to the CompactFlash card. Applications
which can only install to RAM are a royal pain. No problems here though.

The aim of the game is to destroy balloons. In Maze Bomber, balloons aren't just
friendly objects full of hot air -- they kill you! You are a penguin (surprise, surprise), stuck in a maze full
of these evil balloons. Your only hope of survival is to destroy the balloons with your supply of bombs. You
move around the maze using the cursor keys. To plant a bomb you just press the select key. After 5 seconds this
bomb will explode, killing any balloons (or you) that are in the vicinity. The bombs will also destroy parts
of the maze, opening up trapped balloons.

There's not much more to the game than this. There's the option of being able
to place 1-4 bombs at any one time, and setting the number of balloons that are in the maze. As you complete a level
the number of balloons increases.

Unfortunately, the game isn't nearly as addictive as the old Spectrum games I loved to play.
This is partly because you are given one life, which makes things a bit too random. Although the balloons are fairly
intelligent, they did have the habit of reversing into a bomb, even when the penguin was fairly close by. I found
it strange that points didn't come into the game. Part of the fun is trying to get a high score. Instead, Maze Bomber
just increases the number of balloons as you complete a level.

The animation of the penguin is very poor, only the eyes blink when it moves, and
I found the penguin fairly unresponsive to move about the maze.